Damascus Barrel Manufacturing

warpig883
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(1/2/02 4:35:19 pm)
Reply | Edit | Del All Must see--- Damascus barrels
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This covers the amazing and time consuming way Damascus barrles were made over a forge and anvil.

warpig883
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(1/2/02 11:32:23 pm)
Reply | Edit | Del Re: Must see--- Damascus barrels
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Did you read the whole thread. At the bottom they talk about how the supermen of barrel making could twist the wires and bars so that words showed up in the metal. True artists and craftsman of a lost art.
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